---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT"
description: "Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 523"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 523 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dimitri", "LaMountain", "Murray", "Patalano", "Pearson", "Raptakis", "Thompson", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e3c493b-6bb6-4cfd-ae91-7fb3170b5b6f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "f0f9ba95a100c752bb8f77cd6628a2c63dd42f4a0300ff0e7f776e36c2797923"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island SB 523 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- RHODE ISLAND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE ACT

Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **523** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0523.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dimitri — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Thompson — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/01/2025)
- **2025-04-01** 04/01/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2025)
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/29/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-06** 06/06/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e3c493b-6bb6-4cfd-ae91-7fb3170b5b6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).